Analytical Essay William Golding's article, "Why Boys Become Vicious" is a descriptive account of the negative behavior some boys posses. It describes several instances where boy's behavior can be extremely violent and cruel. In his article Golding also gives reasons for some of these actions and attempts to determine whether deep seeded cruelty is something people are born with, or if it is something people collect throughout their lives. He supports these two possibilities with conditions that...

Who Moved My Cheese? I agree that fear does drive me everyday. From early in the morning until I go to bed at night. I'm afraid if I stay in bed and don't go to work, I'll be fired. I'm afraid if I don't pretend to like everyone at work that they won't like me. I'm afraid that if I tell my boss what I really think of his idea, he " ll find a way to fire me. I'm afraid that if I don't attend the parent meeting at school, they will think I'm a bad parent. These are just a few of the fears that run...

Autism In 1943, Leo Kenner, an American psychiatrist, first coined the word in order to describe the symptoms of a group of children whose common abnormalities of behavior distinguished them from the mentally handicapped children in his care. Autistic children show strange fears. Most of these fears are usually of totally harmless objects such as a box or a bush. The strange thing is that they will not register fear when there is real danger. This is probably connected to their inability to make...

Easing Our Children's Fears Children today are faced with a more hostile world than the one in which their parents grew up. Because of this, today's children are also experiencing greater fears and worries. The fears of abuse, violence, drugs, AIDS, and divorce are problems most adults didn't even consider while growing, yet they are commonplace among kids today. Of those fears, the fear of AIDS is one of the few which can be reduced by efforts of parents and teachers. The most effective way to ...

Can Only Fear Lead to Learning I agree with Bruno Bettelheim, I think that fear is a very important part of learning. I don t think Children or students will learn unless they have a feeling of fear inside them. Saying that studying and learning should be fun doesn t cut it. Even if something is fun when you do it, you will get bored after a while. Bettelheim argues that the children who live by the pleasure principle can learn only what they enjoy learning; hence, they acquire only bits and pie...

"The Parent Trap" The sinister thing about being an overprotective parent is that we often harm the ones we are trying to protect. For the most part that ends up being our children. In "The Parent Trap", an article in Home Life magazine, Gary Thomas writes about "missing out on the best for fear of the worst". He also writes that cowardice generates from being selfish, that fear is focusing on what might happen, and how to not be afraid and follow God's call. You will actually have less to worry...